The security bills that would allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense are unlikely to clear the Lower House by the end of June, forcing the ruling coalition to consider extending the Diet session by more than a month.

A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking the removal of a “comfort women” statue in the Southern California city of Glendale, ruling that the monument does not violate the Constitution as alleged in the case filed by two Japanese-Americans and a nonprofit ...